The Ethics of John: Retrospect and Prospects /

Over the past two decades the scholarly conversation has shifted from the practically consensus view that John has little to offer in terms of ethical content to a more robust understanding of how Johannine literature engages ethical questions. This process recently reached a milestone with the publ...

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Other Authors: Dulk, Matthijs den (Editor), Watt, Jan G. van der (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series ; 227.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: PA6568.C8

Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  •   Matthijs den Dulk
  • 2 The Ethics of the Fourth Gospel: a Grammatical Approach
  •   Jan G. van der Watt
  • 3 Beginning with God and Ending with Ethics? Some Theological Reflections on Jan van der Watt's Ethical Grammar and Its Principles of Construction
  •   Jörg Frey
  • 4 Die Voraussetzungen, Grund-Strukturen und Inhalte der johanneischen Ethik
  •   Udo Schnelle
  • 5 Love of Outsiders in the Johannine Writings? A Critical Evaluation of a Tendency in Recent Research on Johannine Ethics
  •   Matthias Konradt
  • 6 The Imitable Ethic of Self-Sacrificial Love: Johannine Ethics as a Reworking of Markan Ethics
  •   Elizabeth J. B. Corsar
  • 7 The Centre of Johannine Ethics
  •   Cornelis Bennema
  • 8 The Centrality of "Life" for Johannine Ethics
  •   Craig R. Koester
  • 9 The Ethos of John's Prologue
  •   R. Alan Culpepper
  • 10 Consuming the Word of God: the Qualifier, Norm and Model for Ethical Conduct
  •   Susanne Luther
  • 11 Why Should One Adopt the Ethics of John?
  •   Christoph Hübenthal
  • Index.